BORIS Johnson risked a new diplomatic storm today by teasing the president of
Turkey over claims he had sex with a goat.
Just days after he compared the EU to Adolf Hitler, BoJo penned an offensive
limerick about Recep Tayyip Erdogan – who has demanded Germany censor a
comedian who first described him as a “goat-f***er”.
In an unpublished interview with a Swiss newspaper the former London mayor
said there should be no limit on what any European can say “about the love
that flowers between a Turkish president and a goat”.
He went on to make up a limerick on the spot, saying:
“There was a young fellow from Ankara.
“Who was a terrific w**kerer
“Till he sowed his wild oats
“With the help of a goat
“But he didn’t even stop to thankera.”
The ditty was revealed as it won the
magazine’s “President Erdogan Offensive Limerick Competition” – set up in a
free speech fightback against the Turkish leader.
Mr Erdogan sparked outrage last month by demanding German comedian Jan
Böhmermann be prosecuted over a satirical poem in which he called the
Turkish president a “goat-f*****” and described him as watching child
pornography.
Authorities in Germany are yet to press charges but today a court banned
Böhmermann from repeating some of the verses.
Mr Johnson will be championed by some for defending free speech and satire.
But others will use it as proof he is not fit to be Britain’s Prime Minister –
a job he covets.
He is already at the centre of a major row for suggesting the EU was like Nazi
Germany in trying to unify the continent.
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And last month he was accused of dog-whistle racism for referring to US
President Barack Obama’s “part Kenyan” heritage.
Mr Johnson has previously attacked President Erdogan over his stance against
satire, writing in the Telegraph: “No one believes that Erdogan is a
goat-fancier or that muffled baa-ing is to be heard from the presidential
suite in Ankara.
“But in a free and pluralist society there is no reason why a self-professed
satirist should not make a joke about it.”
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